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Post by loserdyke on Jan 13, 2023 0:42:27 GMT -5
just saw the premiere of this in a movie theatre. literally the scariest film i personally have ever seen (and i’ve seen some shit). i fucking loved it. if you can to go see it in a theatre go!!! buy your tickets NOW!!!
it’s experimental and visceral and it feels like the first time a real Internet Horror Kid made an Internet Horror Movie. it’s the best of the analog horror genre + david lynchiness + backrooms. run don’t walk to go see this.
the writer/director actually has a youtube channel with all sorts of great shit on there going back years. the channel is called “Bitesized Nightmares”. if you want a taste of the vibe. there is a pirated copy of the film floating around but i think watching it in a theatre makes the experience truly one of a kind.
my one warning is: it is SLOW. just trust the slowness and immerse yourself.
i could analyze this film for hours and i probably will so that post might come later. i’m so geeked out on this movie it’s refreshing. i haven’t felt like this since i saw hereditary in theatres and i know it’s basically cliche now but seeing that changed my life and got me into horror as a genre (as an adult and as a creator, my history with horror is longgggg and varied) and this feels like the next level.
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Post by withswords on Jan 13, 2023 14:57:37 GMT -5
i have never even HEARD of this but 'internet horror kid movie' is exactly my shit. i think the closest we have to that right now is world's fair, which was amazing but not particularly scary on that visceral level. unfortunately i think the only place showing it in australia is out in brisbane so i'll either have to hustle to the movies sometime this week before i head back out or pirate it once i'm back in australia 🤔
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Post by eldritchcatgirl on Jan 14, 2023 8:52:58 GMT -5
Bogleech put up a pretty interesting interpretation of the film on his blog: here (his review has full spoilers for the events of the film, so don't read it if you want to go in blind). I definitely think this is gonna go on my must watch list, though, because I am always really interested in films which use non-standard plots and storytelling in order to convey dread in more abstract, and often more conceptual, ways. It makes sense to me that this would be a movie created by a director who primarily works through YouTube, honestly, it seems to use a lot of techniques and tropes that are commonplace in webseries but not the big screen and reframes them in such a way that they still feel fresh to those who are intimately familiar with that sub-category of the genre.
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Post by loserdyke on Jan 14, 2023 17:40:43 GMT -5
That's exactly it, eldritchcatgirl, things that we take for granted in the "scary youtube video" realm are really something different when you watch it in a theatre. I've seen it compared to the Blair Witch Project in the context of how they clashed with genre conventions at released. They are both so experimental for a full length horror feature for aesthetics that, at least partially, seem to be also be born out of budgetary restrictions. Its so fresh for the genre because the stuff we are used to seeing in theatres has like millions of dollars behind it. The simplicity here is the beauty of it. The public domain cartoons, the set (the writer/director's CHILDHOOD HOME), how much is left up to the imagination are some of the standout parts and those are all direct results of the tiny budget. It felt like a movie that was half evil still life painting.
I feel like such a dork gushing like this about it but I'm just so psyched. It had a couple flaws I picked out for sure, but those all felt like budgetary problems. I didn't like that the grain was a filter; I wish it was actually shot on VHS. I think that would have added so much more to the already phenomenal visual language of the film. However, this was an EXTREMELY indie first feature and I am sure the money and time to shoot it on tape and digitize the film and learn how to use all that equipment effectively was not available. I feel bad even marking it down at all for that. Similarly, I think the sounds and foley work could have been better. But like its so good I'm talking about the GRAIN EFFECT and SOUND EFFECTS being like slightly wonky as my biggest complaints. It's budget is like the superpower and the weak spot of the film.
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Post by wormsday on Jan 20, 2023 18:48:42 GMT -5
getting to see it in theatre sounds sooo dreamy omg
i've been dodging gifs of it for my entire life since it came out like one of those where i NEED to go watch it emergency but it gets so big, like the task, now i've got to schedule it [weary emoji]
its really exciting this is making a bit of a buzz in a genre so dominated right now by like loud monster stock screaming
but 100% going to watch it and then go through artists youtube work this weekend
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Post by jacket on Jan 21, 2023 4:09:51 GMT -5
Just watched it and it made me INSANE.
Roommate was out when I watched it too so I just ended up feeling like I was going to get Skinamarink'd until they came back, which is a rare feeling with horror for me, I never get like lingering fear so it was a little refreshing.
It's truly and experience that, to me, defies description, huge fan of the cinematography, every artistic choice in this movie is GLORIOUS.
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Post by wormsday on Feb 1, 2023 6:10:31 GMT -5
omg i finally watched it a bit ago, and i have to saw the watching on your computer in a completely dark room experience is Kinda premium
there was a lot of nice in the stomach sort of tension with it!
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